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Thomas Pynchon Is Angry
In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?
Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.
Maggie Millner
An Annie Ernaux essay, only in print
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A. Philip Randolph
Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin
A Courier for Jacques Lacan
The psychoanalyst invited me for lunch at his Parisian apartment—and drew me into his orbit
Eileen Simpson
Meeting Matisse
I came looking for the genius behind La Ronde—and found a man sulking over old clippings
Quentin Bell
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